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SpinLaunch raises $40M from Airbus, Google and others for space catapult
SpinLaunch’s hangar is home to a vehicle that’s designed to be launched from a catapult. (SpinLaunch Photo)
A stealthy Silicon Valley startup called says it’s raised a total of $40 million from a high-profile array of investors to get a space catapul...
Tech titan Nathan Myhrvold revisits NASA asteroid argument in peer-reviewed paper
in his office at Intellectual Ventures in Bellevue, Wash., Nathan Myhrvold shows off a fragment of the Chelyabinsk meteorite, which was left behind by an asteroid impact in 2013. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle)
Nathan Myhrvold is back, and this time he...
Spacewalkers install HD video cameras to monitor future SpaceX and Boeing trips
NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold looks out from the International Space Station’s Quest airlock at the beginning of a spacewalk. (Oleg Artemyev / Roscosmos via Twitter)
News Brief: NASA astronauts Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold installed new high-definitio...
Good news! NASA says Opportunity rover should be able to wait out Martian storm
An artist’s conception shows NASA’s Opportunity rover under sunnier conditions. (NASA Illustration)
NASA has had to put its power-starved Opportunity rover into an induced coma on Mars, but that drastic maneuver — plus some luck — should be enough to...
Axiom Space offers space station vacations starting in 2020, for $55 million
An artist’s conception shows a space traveler floating in zero gravity. (Axiom Space Illustration)
How much would you pay for a 10-day stay in low Earth orbit? Houston-based has set a $55 million price point for trips that it says could begin as earl...
NASA loses contact with its dust-choked Opportunity rover on Mars, but stay tuned
This series of images shows simulated views of a darkening Martian sky blotting out the sun from the Opportunity rover’s point of view, with the right side simulating Opportunity’s current view in the current dust storm. (NASA / JPL-Caltech / TAMU)
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Spaceflight strikes deal with Rocket Lab for three satellite launch extravaganzas
Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket lifts off from its New Zealand launch pad in January. (Rocket Lab Photo via Spaceflight)
Seattle-based has partnered with for three launches over the next year, including the first launch for BlackSky’s .
All three launch...
Juno mission to Jupiter gets an update
Jupiter shows off its bands of clouds in an image captured during the Juno probe’s Perijove 13 encounter last month. (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / David Marriott)
News Brief: NASA has its plans for the to support science operations through mid-...